setting the pace for tomorrow’s innovations!
Since 2014, the EDF Pulse Start-up Awards have given a helping hand to European startups using new technological solutions to build tomorrow’s world – an electric world that’s more eco-friendly and better connected. Up for grabs for the winners: a marketing campaign and up to €80,000 of prize money to give their creativity even more of a boost!
« The EDF Pulse start-up Awards adventure was a catalyst for us. It gave us reach like never before. »
Isabelle Gallet-Coty - SAUREA President, 2019 winner
2020 Edition
The EDF Pulse start-up Awards’ 7th edition starts now! And this new decade brings new ambition: support socially inclusive and meaningful innovations.
Go to the 2020 edition!The EDF Pulse Start-up Awards since 2014
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Past winners
2019 Winner, 1st Prize
TheraPanacea revolutionises radiotherapy (a type of Cancer treatment) and uses Artificial Intelligence for a more automated, personalised and adaptive process.
2019 Winner, Audience Award
SAUREA created the first highly resistant motor converting solar energy into mechanical energy, without any conversion electronics.
2018 winner in the Smart Home category
Lancey has invented a smart radiator that stores electricity during off-peak hours before releasing it during times of peak consumption.
2017 winner in the Smart City category
Wodoo has developed an augmented wood to build the city of the future – it is translucent, rot-proof, fire-resistant and 3 times stronger than the original wood.
2017 winner in the Smart Business category
GEPS Techno offers autonomous buoys that use renewable marine energy sources to supply power to offshore wind turbines.
2018 winner in the Smart City category
HySiLabs is revolutionising the transport of hydrogen, a promising and low-carbon energy source for the cities of the future.
2017 winner in the Smart Home category
Howz develops sensors that are placed in senior citizens’ homes to monitor activity via their use of electrical devices, ensuring that everything is as it should be.
2016 winner in the Smart Health category
Biomodex prints 3D organs so surgeons can practise before they operate.
EDF Pulse Start-up: Local Editions
News
The EDF Pulse start-up Awards are coming to in India
India’s 1st edition starts now! It calls for socially inclusive Indian-based innovations for an electric world that’s more eco-friendly and better connected. Up to 20,000€ and a communication campaign at stakes. Start-ups can apply until June 3rd.
In Paris on Thursday the 21st of November 2019, EDF awarded prizes to five winners of the 3rd EDF Pulse Africa competition, which seeks to spotlight and assist African innovators committed to helping the continent grow its energy industry.
EV charging solution wins! The team from ev.energy impressed judges and won EDF Energy’s 2019 Pulse Innovation Challenge with their customer-focussed solution making it simpler, cheaper and greener for drivers to charge electric vehicles at home and on the go.